Dear Mar Shiprim readers,
See below for new titles in Assyriology and related fields shared through the Agade mailing list between January 1st and March 31st, 2025.
Please get in touch with any corrections or additions via marshiprim@iaassyriology.com.
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Pavla Rosenstein
Mar Shiprim Editor
Alivernini, S., Bramanti, A., Greco, A. and Spada, G. (eds), “And I Have Also Devoted Myself to the Art of Music”. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Franco D’Agostino Presented on His 65th Birthday by His Pupils, Colleagues and Friends = dubsar 37, Zaphon, 2025.
Bachmann, F., Urukzeit. Stratigraphie und Architektur = Ausgrabungen in Tell Sheikh Hassan, Band II, PeWe Verlag, 2025.
Bortolani, L. M., Furley, W., Nagel, S. and Quack, J. F. (eds), Cultural Plurality in Ancient Magical Texts and Practices, Orientalische Religionen in der Antike 32, Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
Bruweleit, S., The Verbal Systems of Aramaic, Handbook of Oriental Studies, section 1 The Near and Middle East 187, Brill, 2025.
Corbier, C., Emerit, S., and Vendries, C., Une archéologie de la musique antique au XIXe siècle, Open Edition Books, 2024.
Crouzet, G. and Miller, E. (eds), Finding Antiquity, Making the Modern Middle East: Archaeology, Empires, Nations, Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
Dąbrowa, E. (ed) with with assistance of Fink, S., Autocratic Rule in Antiquity. Proceedings of the 14th Melammu Workshop, Kraków, 4–6 October 2021, Melammu Workshops and Monographs 12, Zaphon, 2024.
Elayi, J., Nabuchodonosor, Roi de Babylone, entre histoire et légende, Perrin, 2025.
Glatz, C., Calderbank, D., Chelazzi, F., Sameen, S. M. (et al), Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities: the Lower Sirwan/ Upper Diyala River Valley from Prehistory to the Iron Age, Sidestone Press, 2024.
Golani, A. and Wolff, S. R., Tel Dover (Khirbet ed-Duweir) on the Yarmuk River: The Late Bronze and Iron Age Levels, Ägypten und Altes Testament 130, Zaphon, 2025.
Hall, E., Ritual and Power in Northern Israel. The Late Bronze and Iron Ages, Ägypten und Altes Testament 127, Zaphon, 2024.
Hammer, J., The Mesopotamian Riddle. An Archaeologist, a Soldier, a Clergyman, and the Race to Decipher the World’s Oldest Writing, Simon & Schuster, 2025.
Højlund, F. (ed), Failaka Dilmun. The Second Millennium Settlements, vol 6. Copper, Cuneiform inscriptions and Other Finds, Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, 2024.
Hughes, B., The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, Orion Publishing Group, 2024.
Kikuchi, S., Mesopotamische Hemerologien und ihre gesellschaftliche Bedeutung, Dubsar 32, Zaphon, 2024.
Kõiv, M. and Kletter, R. (eds), Responses to the 12th Century BC Collapse. Recovery and Restructuration in the Early Iron Age Near East and Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 9th Melammu Workshop, Tartu, 7–9 June 2019, Zaphon, 2025.
Lacarova, P., (ed) A Legacy of Learning in Near Eastern Archaeology, Centennial Studies in Memory of Helen J. Kantor, Archeopress, 2025.
Matessi, A., Frontiers, Territories and the Making of Hittite Political Landscapes, Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (SANER) 32, de Gruyter, 2025.
Matessi, A., Giusfredi F., Pisaniello V. and Merlin, S. (eds), Contacts of Languages and Peoples in the Hittite and Post-Hittite World, volume 2, The First Millennium and the Eastern Mediterranean interface, Ancient Languages and Civilizations 4, Brill, 2025.
Matoïan, V., Vita, J-P. and Geyer B. (eds.), Archéologie, patrimoine et archives, Les fouilles anciennes à Ras Shamra et à Minet el-Beida, III Ras Shamra-Ougarit XXIX, Peeters, 2024.
Maziar, S. and Helwing, B. (eds.), Movement and Mobility in Highland Landscapes of Southwest Asia, Sidestone Press Academics, 2024.
Metcalf, C., Three Myths of Kingship in Early Greece and the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Mirelman, S., The Performance of Balaĝ and Eršema Prayers in the Late First Millennium BC, Heidelberger Emesal-Studien 4, Harrassowitz-Verlag, 2024.
Morenz, L. D., Egyptian meeting Canaanites and the genesis of alphabetic writing around 1900 BCE, Editorial Universidad de Alcalá, 2023.
Nørgaard, H. W. and Reiter, S. S., Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology, Archeopress, 2025.
Pinnock, F., The Palace Style Cylinder Seals and Sealings from the Royal Palace G of Early Bronze Age IVA (ca. 2400-2300 BCE), Materiali e Studi Archeologici di Ebla 11, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.
Reid, J. N. and Wagensonner, K., Letters from Old Babylonian Kish, Oxford Editions and Cuneiform Texts XVI, Oxford University Press, 2025.
Rochberg, F., Worldmaking and Cuneiform Antiquity. An Anthropology of Science, Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Rozzi, G., A Critical Edition of the Nabû and Ištar Prayers and a Study of the Corpus, Antichistica 42, Venice University Press, 2024.
Scarpelli, T., Das Wetter in der mesopotamischen Kulturgeschichte des II. und I. Jahrtausends v. Chr., Leipziger Altorientalistische Studien 18, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2024.
Shafak, E., There are Rivers in the Sky, Knopf, 2024.
Soysal, O. and Aykut, I., Unpublished Bo-Fragments in Transliteration IV (Bo 2689-Bo5660), Chicago Hittite Dictionary Supplements 5, Chicago: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, 2025.
Ulanowski, K. and Warburton, D. A., The Human and the Divine. Aspects of Sanctity in Time and Space, Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 142, Brill, 2025.
Vernet, M., Adiego, I-X., Garcíca Trabazo, J. V., Hoz, M-P., Obrador-Cursach, B., (eds), Gods and Languages in Ancient Anatolia, Monographica Orientalia 25, Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, 2024.
Wisnom, S., The Library of Ancient Wisdom. Mesopotamia and the Making of History, Penguin, 2025.
Wissing, A., Lange-Weber, S., Geith, E., Gllissmann. B., Köster, T., and Sconzo, P. (eds), Die Kunst des Findens. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde des östlichen Mittelmeerraumes und Westasiens. Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Peter Pfälzner, marru 17, Zaphon, 2024.